Beschreibung
'Sometimes I get fanciful and think the buildings speak. That all their history is locked into the walls and if you listened closely enough, you could hear all the people who'd once been there.' Sigi lived upstairs from Sara at Friedrichstrasse 19 yet before they met, Sara had no idea that Berlin could be so thrillingly irreverent or that sex could be so intoxicatingly wonderful. But then came the war, and hunger, loneliness and barbed wire. It was just as a young girl, a protegee of The Academy of Magical Arts situated in Friedrichstrasse at the start of the century, had predicted. Battered and divided, Berlin, like its people, endured. Hans yearns to be part of the boundary-breaking spirit of the age but he's haunted by his mother's part in the war and the absence of a father. Ilse, who escaped from the East, wants nothing more than the freedom she risked her life for. In 1989 in a wild act of spontaneous joy, Heike leapt from the Wall into the arms of a stranger from the West. Thirty years later, she recognises that what she'd willed to be destiny was nothing more than naivety. Recently divorced, she moves into Friedrichstrasse, to begin a new life. But it's impossible not to hear the echoes of the secrets and lies, visions and misunderstandings, lost loves and fatal mistakes, that have come before her. Time-travelling between decades, through the interlocking lives of six people, Friedrichstrasse 19 relives the tumultuous experience of a city on the frontline of history.
| EAN: | 9781529376203 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 16.02.2023 |
| Produktform: | Kartoniert |
| Autoren: | Harding, Emma |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 239 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Literary |
| Keyword: | historical fiction; historical saga; Cold War; Weimar Republic; Nazi Germany; German history; Berlin; Berlin Wall; East Berlin; West Berlin; divided city; lost loves; fatal mistakes; connected stories; interlocking lives; loneliness; haunted by the past; if these walls could talk; lives torn apart by conflict |
| Fachschema: | Berlin / Roman, Erzählung, Lyrik, Essay~Englische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Historischer Roman, Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik |
| Region: | Deutschland |
| Imprint-Titels: | John Murray Press |
| Text Sprache: | eng |
| Verlag: | Hodder And Stoughton Ltd. |
| Länge: | 194 mm |
| Breite: | 129 mm |
| Höhe: | 25 mm |
| Gewicht: | 182 gr |
| Genre: | Importe |
| Herkunftsland: | GROSSBRITANNIEN (GB) |